Do You Think The Pregnancy Forums Should Be Merged?
Yes
88%
[ 16 ]
No
11%
[ 2 ]
Total Votes : 18
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Emma2
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 4406 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: 08-23-06 13:28pm
Yeah really...Go to any professionally
runned site and you'll notice no mod will
ever interject themselves in a debate by
using insulting, demeaning and sarcastic
words. They don't appear on every thread
and act buddy , buddy with any members or
get personal as i've seen here. It would
be like a lunch ladies in school hanging
out at the cool kid table and getting
into arguments with those whom are not so
liked. It just inappropriate behavior and
it's no wonder no one takes you guys
seriously. They are supposed to be
indifferent and diplomatic, in other
words, set an example and enforce the
rules in a mature and positive way. All
I see being done is breaking all the rules
yourself and then trying to impose them on
others. Thats my opinion and if you
would like you can delete this post too if
it doesnt tickle your fancy , like you
deleted my other legit posts that were
actually just debates without resulting to
insults and anger as you have . End of
dicussion for me , i've made my point.
Good day!
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tigresacanela24
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 5261 Location: Treat your children well, eventually they'll choose your nursing home.
Posted: 08-23-06 13:42pm
On a positive note, i'm truly glad the "am
I pregnet" questions are gone! Just
trying to spread a little love!
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Tazzy D
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 3718 Location: , va
Posted: 08-23-06 13:46pm
I pmed the mods as well as admin and I am
waiting for a reply
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lil_blaze2004
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6492 Location: ,
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Posted: 08-23-06 14:49pm
Ok i'm back for a minute...
I think the preggo forums should be merged
(at least the 1,2 3 tri, etc..)
it should be
-ttc
-preggo
-teen preggo
-adoption
-ppd
-children (sub categories-infant, toddler,
kids, teens)****
-single parents
-daddys
-miscarriage/stillbirth (the whole reason
this one was started was because many
preggo's got upset seing daily miscarriage
things. They asked, I asked admin and
it was added)
-pics
-general
ok here are the current forums, and my
opinions
new member introductions
pregnancy
teen pregnancy
getting pregnant -rename
ttc
pregnancy calendar -merge with
preggo
early pregnancy signs and symptoms -under ttc but in
a sub category..Am I pregnant??
first trimester of pregnancy -merge with
preggo
second trimester of pregnancy -merge with
preggo
third trimester of pregnancy -merge with
preggo
labor and delivery -merge with
preggo
pregnancy after forty -merge with
preggo
depression during pregnancy -merge with
preggo
multiple pregnancy -merge with
preggo
single and pregnant -merge with
preggo
baby names -merge with preggo
pregnancy q&a -merge with
preggo
caring for your newborn new topic see
above****
postpartum depression
daddy tips
grandparenting do we really
need this one??
infant safety tips new topic see
above****
baby milestones new topic see
above****
baby showers merge with preggo forum
baby q&a new topic see above****
pregnancy fitness, health and nutrition
merge with
preggo forum
miscarriage / stillbirth forum
cord blood banking merge with
preggo forum
adoption forum
what do you all think?
And emma, the mods here get involved cause
we were all just regular posters before.
And honestly every forums i've ever
belonged to had mods who made friends with
posters and chatted amongst them
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Melissa_20
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 6806 Location: Florida
Posted: 08-23-06 14:53pm
I think its good,butwhat would the general
forum be for?
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Mabel
Moderator
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 8950 Location: Grinning like a Cheshire Cat,
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Posted: 08-23-06 15:47pm
melissa_20
wrote:
i think its good,butwhat
would the general forum be
for?
it looks like it would just be preggo.
All pregnancy all the time.
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Sandbox Party
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 7276
Posted: 08-23-06 16:17pm
I just think if we merged everything like
that, it would take a decade to sort thru
everything just to get to the posts that
are relevant to each of us.
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Mabel
Moderator
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Posted: 08-23-06 16:18pm
rainfire1424
wrote:
i just think if we merged
everything like that, it would take a
decade to sort thru everything just to get
to the posts that are relevant to each of
us.
you are right that does seem like a lot of
boards to merge. However a lot of those
boards are fairly inactive. And if posts
will be moved to their appropriate board
as it stands, it would be easier to find
them if they were merged - as opposed to
no one ever seeing them now.
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Tazzy D
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 3718 Location: , va
Posted: 08-23-06 16:26pm
It just seems like to me no matter what
opinions are given no one is satisfied
unless it is thier way.
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Tazzy D
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 3718 Location: , va
Posted: 08-23-06 16:26pm
melissa_20
wrote:
tazzy d
wrote:
we arent just now going in a
change spree there have been alot of
changes going on throught the years.
New forums added and etc. Adoption
forum, and others. These have always
been the rules even before we came here.
And before we became mods.. Just some
of us where recently briefed on the what
when where how and why's, and some of us
werent doing the job of a mod, or some
just didnt care anymore because they just
got tired of the drama. .. Now they
are working on making alot of things
better.. And I know you gals/guys dont
like the fact of posting everywhere, but I
think that this is a way to get traffic to
the other topics as well. There are
alot of good things about this site as
well as good qualities and good people and
especially people who have become close.
And I understand that. And about the
pictures the reason why they where sent to
milestones and etc. Are because every
part of a babies life is a milestone.
First picture first birthday first tooth
first everything. First gift and etc..
All of those are milestones atleast for
me they are. I'm a parent and
everything that my children do is a
milestone for me, and I hope that they are
a milestone for all of yall as well.
Again sorry if you all dont like the
rules, but then again who does like
rules.......
see,thats the thing
though tazzy.You see those things as a
mile stone,its .Y.O.U.R opinion.We see
them as just showing the kids off.Its not
like they haven't posted a million pics of
their kids already.Thats why there is no
reson for this thread because its all what
the mods think,we pretty much get no say
even though I give some credit for
listening to us and trying to do something
about it
and its not just as what I see them as.
Its what they are..
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grniys
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 15 Location: NC
Posted: 08-23-06 17:54pm
I just wanted to add that I love
lil_blaze2004 idea. I think that actually
sounds great and makes the most sense.
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Sandbox Party
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 7276
Posted: 08-23-06 18:32pm
tazzy d
wrote:
it just seems like to me no
matter what opinions are given no one is
satisfied unless it is thier
way.
it isnt that everyone wants it their way,
.T. Its just-- we all pretty much want
the same thing-- for everything to be left
alone except for the things that need to
be dealt with.
I understand the need for moderation....
Truely I do. I just dont think it needs
to be taken to the extent it has been.
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
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Lil_blaze2004 Posted: 08-23-06 18:36pm
What about baby's name's, that seems to
come up alot here?
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Tazzy D
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 3718 Location: , va
Posted: 08-23-06 18:56pm
All this is fine. Now it just boils down
to wether or not the site admin. Will
allow all of this. We have brought it all
to their attention..
all this is fine. Now it
just boils down to wether or not the site
admin. Will allow all of this. We
have brought it all to their
attention..
well gee the site admin has allowed it
till now... There is even a sticky by
the admin in the teen board on "how to
post pictures". Wow. Gee.
You guys are wasting your time. You
know what threads like this are ment to
do? Pacify us, try to make us think
what we want/say matters. It obviously
doesn't. They don't care, I promise.
All the mods do is respond with useless
twaddle. "well these changes have been
going on for a period of time blah blah
blah". Twaddle. How about you make
some promises or we see some action?
"well look we gave you a chance to tell us
your suggestions and you call it dumb".
I don't see how this stuff is dealing with
any real issues, you know why, because
they don't intend on it.
Why the hell would someone want to be a
mod here if every forum user (who the
forum is ment for) doesn't like them?
Doesn't respect their decisions, doesn't
understand their reasoning, and would
really rather someone with more sense
moderate the forums? I know if I was a
mod and everyone thought I was doing a
sh*tty job and ruining the forums i'ld
give up my position. I know I wouldn't
enjoy a job I was suppose to be doing for
people if they didn't appreciate it or
want me around. Also (i don't mean this
rude at all) but the teen pregnancy board
mod hasn't experienced raising a child,
and therefor can't relate to a lot of
things girls on there go through. Maybe
she doesn't understand what it is we
truely experience (not me personally since
I haven't had my child yet) which might be
why she doesn't get why the changes won't
benefit us. She never raised a child,
so maybe she doesn't get why it matters
that we show pictures and show them off,
why sometimes our threads are just about
our life and children, and sometimes just
venting.
You know what, all the other forums are
specific for a reason. How can you be
so specific about what topics go in the
"pregnancy" forum when "pregnancy" itself
is such a broad, unspecific, topic. If
anything you should regulate the other
pregnancy forums to make sure the things
are specific to the main topic of the
forum, since those ones actually have
really specific main topic.
Last edited by ThriftyGal on 08-24-06 00:48am; edited 1 time in total
I know the sticky by admin entitled "how
to post pictures" doesn't actually say how
to post pictures, but by the title it's
obvious admin intended on stating in the
post. (maybe forgot or something)
admin wouldn't post a sticky called "how
to post pictures" only to go on inside it
and say "don't post your pictures in this
forum". Normally giving instructions on
how to do something that isn't allowed
isn't how people go about things.
So the admin sends one message, and tazzy
single handedly decideds she knows better?
I think atleast you mods should
understand why we are confused by her
reasonings.
You know on the list, where you pick which
forum you want to go to, well this is what
it says beside the "pregnancy forum" this
one. "pregnancy- everything about
pregnancy"... So once again the
admin/whoever runs the site has sent one
message, that in the pregnancy forum
everything about pregnancy can go but
again tazzy has decided, against the
messages admin has sent, that no, the
pregnancy forum has to be really specific
and that threads about pregnancy, relating
to pregnancy, don't belong here.
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 08-24-06 03:52am
You know tanyaface.
You're dead right, i've never raised a
child of my own - how very nice of you to
point that out.
But guess what??? I've been pregnant.
And why would I want to be a mod because,
as other people have proved, when given
the opportunity to be a mod they shrink
from the resposibility.
It is accepted that not everyone will like
you, that's called life.
They don't have to like me (or any other
mod for that matter).
Being a moderator is about what is best
for the board as a whole, not just the few
people who post regular at the moment.
But for all the people who lurk, people
who post occassionally, people of the
future as well.
This post has gone on and shown what you
really want.
Admin have been informed.
As for action we will see. We weren't
asked to ask your opinions on this but (i
at least, I can't speak for other mods)
thought it might be a good idea to ask
your opinions anyway.
Mods are not able to action everything you
have mentioned. We have and will
certainly to continue to pass this on to
the admin though. The final decision will
be their's.
Your points have been noted.
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 08-24-06 12:36pm
Just want to add thatthe general forum
would be for general stuff. Life, bad
days etc.. Not preggo related.
